Description
The great body of the Young papers consist of Miss Young's fifth through
twelfth grade schoolwork (1901-1908). The papers also include notes on Miss
Young's family, personal correspondence and photographs.
Background
Eleanor L. Young (c1890-1965) was the daughter of Junius Davis Young
(1858-1917), a physician at the Stockton Insane Asylum, and Nellie L. Roberts
(1871-1938). She was educated in the Stockton public schools and spent her
entire life in the city of her birth. A woman of wealth, Miss Young devoted her
life to civic activities and charity work. She gave these materials to Holt
Atherton Special Collections in 1958.